Although the desert region is an enemy territory and is very unsafe, in fact, Twilight is even more dangerous, because it is now during the reincarnation invasion, and it is uncertain when the reincarnation will do it.

And the desert seems to be dangerous, but in fact, there are Burton's personal guard corps, and the safety factor is very high, and Solandelle went to find Boton, which also saved Chino a lot of thought.

This time in the reincarnation invasion, Chino's range of action is limited to the eastern part of the Beacon Province by the brand of the Refusal, and he can leave Twilight City and travel between multiple cities, and he will no longer be trapped in the city like last time.

However, Chino is now trapped by something else - the decree.

Chino's status as an administrator is a layer of protection and a layer of constraints, which provides Chino with a large number of local power connections, but is also constrained by the kingdom's government.

Like the appointment document just now, the superiors asked Chino to do a good job in the placement of the inbound corps, but he had no way to refuse, he could only complete the military order, and if he was a little neglectful, what was waiting for him was to remove the official and take away his post, and even impose a heavy sentence.

This means that even if Chino has no restrictions on his range of movement, and there is a decree here, even if he knows that staying in Twilight City will inevitably be attacked, there is no place to hide.

Benefiting from the dividends of official positions, but being bound by official positions, this is a big problem that Chino is currently facing.

Although Chino is the youngest administrator in the kingdom, is this a result of his own efforts? Maybe there is a point, after all, last year's total annihilation of horse bandits in Shilin Town was a real achievement.

But in the end, it was Resahar who made the decision, and the provincial consul took a fancy to him, and felt that the young man had potential and was worthy of promotion; Second, young people who feel that they have such potential should do favors as soon as possible so that they can be used for themselves in the future.

In this way, he became an administrator.

In the final analysis, it still depends on the favor of the royal family.

This is the disadvantage of being born in a down-and-out aristocracy, which seems to have an unlimited future, but in fact has no foundation, and the road to promotion is all in the hands of others.

Like those civilians and slaves, Chino's upside was blocked by his own origins.

Just like those who have potential since childhood, are sponsored by the nobles to go to school and study, and become a doorman to feed the nobles after graduation, Chino's position in Ray Sahar's heart is also such a person - promote you, do a good job, and remember to stand on the side of the dragon banner if there is anything in the future.

Everything Chino has now... In other words, everything that most of the minor nobles have, whether it is connections, troops, wealth, or status, is based on the favor of the royal family.

The Wang Ling family nodded, and your strength can flourish and rise steadily.

The Wang Ling family shook their heads, no matter how outstanding your strength is, how prominent your feats are, and how huge your subordinates are, you are just duckweed in the water.

In the face of the high power of the kingdom, what you have is given to you by them, and they can bring you down in the future.

In such a country where classes are strict and transcendents are endless, it is difficult to achieve such a thing.

Even if you are a refuser, with a triple shackle, it is difficult to get rid of the shackles of the rules, let alone override them.

Desperately do good deeds, win the respect of others, harvest respect points, exchange for the same powerful weapons, establish an industrial system, set off a scientific and technological revolution, let the productive forces flourish, break the old pattern, and finally become the rule-maker of the new world?

When you take the initiative to reveal a technology, even the smallest technology, as long as it does not match the power system of this world, countless pairs of eyes will immediately be staring at you.

At the least, they will control you, monitor you 24 hours a day, and force you to use these technologies to serve the nobles, and you will be reduced to a tool from then on.

In the worst case, you will be listed as a "heretic" or "blasphemous" and killed on the spot.

Become a demon, slaughter cities wildly, harvest infinite fear points, exchange one powerful supernatural power after another, people block killing, gods block and destroy gods, become the strongest in the world, and trample all those who dare to disobey under their feet?

The slaughter of the town by horse bandits has already made the royal family not hesitate to launch a conquest war, hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers will be sent, if you dare to massacre the city, before you are invincible in the world, the kingdom has already sent the top transcendent to break you into thousands of pieces.

You must know that the supreme existence still talks about "martial virtue", and no matter how strong you are now, it will send a team with an average strength similar to you to carry out the hunting mission.

But the local forces in this world don't have this set, they won't be like the mentally handicapped boss in the movie, first send a bunch of experience babies to level you up, sharpen you stronger and stronger, and finally take action in person, and be so glorious that you will be killed.

Once there is an uncontrollable threat, the superior will most likely directly send the strongest subordinate to nip you in the bud cleanly.

Therefore, Chino must now cooperate with the rules, even if he often plays outside the rules, and cannot touch the red line, so as to ensure the most basic survival.

But just ensuring survival is obviously not enough for Chino, and if he stays in the rules set by others, he is destined to become a tool.

If he wants to break through the shackles and change from a chess piece on the chessboard to a real chess player, he needs an opportunity.

And this opportunity is much closer than you think...

...

Solandelle and Lorna packed their belongings, and Chino sent them on the back of the dragon in the scarlet night, and the two prepared to fly into the desert.

"Chino, let's go first."

"No, come and play with me when you have time, I'll take you to meet my brother."

The two girls waved goodbye to Chino.

Chino: "It's coming, be careful on your way." ”

"Whew-" Scarlet Night spread her crimson wings and flew into the air.

At this time, Chino suddenly felt that something was wrong, the desert was in the east, how could the scarlet night fly to the west?

Chino shouted, "Lorna, it's the other way around!" The desert is on the other side. ”

"Hey, me, me, I know, I'll take Solan for a ride!" Lorna's mouth was stiff, and she hurriedly pulled the dragon rope and manipulated Scarlet Night to turn to the southeast.

After the two left, Chino began to prepare for the placement of the Entry Legion.

According to the withering, three legions will enter the country the day after tomorrow, and they will need to be stationed in Twilight City for rectification, with a total number of about 24,000 men, of which 20% are wounded soldiers.

With a population of 200,000, there are 24,000 soldiers at once, of whom nearly 5,000 are wounded, which is definitely a huge burden, and it is absolutely impossible for the city to take it alone.

Chino immediately returned to his office, wrote down a decree, and sent it to the herald to be sent to the 11 towns under Twilight City, mobilized all available resources, recruited taverns in various places, set up military tents in the open space of the square, and found a group of nobles who were willing to accept soldiers at home, and solved the accommodation problem in a smooth and orderly manner.

At the same time, Chino mobilized the logistics troops to buy a large amount of meat from the market, opened an emergency granary, prepared sufficient rations and supplies for the soldiers, and summoned all the medical association in-service doctors, civilian barefoot doctors, and all kinds of workers with medical experience, ready to cooperate with the military doctors in the regiment to treat the wounded.

Two days later, corps troops arrived.

Under Chino's mobilization, the 11 subordinate towns received and placed a total of more than 8,000 soldiers on the basis of a "15 to 1" principle – that is, an average of 15 people working together to support one legionnaire.

The remaining 16,000 soldiers were all placed in the city of Twilight - due to the medical conditions in the subordinate towns, most of the wounded soldiers were placed in the main city, except for some minor wounded, and the number of wounded soldiers was enough to be more than 3,400.

It can be seen that the Battle of Blood Sand, which lasted for half a year, was extremely tragic.

The soldiers under the command of the royal army were not familiar with the harsh climate of the desert, and the situation of not adapting to the water and soil was very serious, and the combat effectiveness was greatly restricted.

Moreover, the horse bandits themselves are not vegetarians, these lightly armed cavalry come and go without a trace, their combat experience is not weaker than that of the regular army, and they have a home advantage, which caused great damage to the kingdom army in the early stage.

In particular, the horse bandits relied on the famous horse archery technology, in the desert wind and sand with extremely low visibility, once they fell into a sports war, the kingdom archers could not shoot at each other, and the kingdom knights could not catch up, and there were often cases where a 10,000-strong army was shot by a thousand horse bandits.

Later, if it weren't for Boton's mastery of interspersed detours, his strong command ability to chase and intercept the horse bandits, gradually compress their guerrilla space, and finally complete the encirclement of the main force of the horse bandits, and stubbornly turn the movement war into a war of annihilation, it is really difficult to say who will win and who will lose in the kingdom and the desert.

At this time, almost all the soldiers who entered the city one after another were unkempt, their eyes were full of tired bloodshots, and their armor was stained with a mixture of blood and gravel, and it had hardened in the dry wind of the desert, and it was difficult to pick it off with a knife, and I don't know how much of that blood belonged to the enemy and how much was his own.

Among the wounded soldiers, those who were stabbed in the body and pierced in the leg could only be regarded as minor injuries, and they did not even receive the regular treatment of the wounded, and they did not have any means of transportation, and they needed to limp and walk with the army, because the horses and carriages were distributed to the disabled and the dead.

The tall war horse was sickly stepping on its hooves, the once bright fur had long been dimmed, the disabled and wounded with missing arms and legs were sitting on it, hanging their heads listlessly, some were covering their amputated arms and sobbing secretly, and some people kept covering their mouths and coughing, and their sleeves were wiped and stained with bloody spit.

The handicapped and wounded are able to sit on horseback, and the wounded in the carriage are all dying...

The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and the dying and wounded soldiers lay inside, some of them with their jaws shattered by the hammer, and they were dying, and they needed a tube to stick in their throats to drink some porridge.

Some people's stomachs were cut open by the scimitars of the bandits, and the military doctors could not close the wounds with stitches and needles, so they could only press with their hands in 24-hour shifts to prevent the wounds from bursting and bleeding on a large scale.

There was also a soldier whose left hand and legs were broken, and even two eyes were blinded, and the only remaining right hand was tightly clutching the amulet given by his wife before leaving for the battle, and the two eyes that were only bloody holes could not be closed, and he could not see anything.

The streets were already crowded with spontaneous crowds, almost everyone holding flowers in their hands, and they expected that the triumphant kingdom army should be like Chino's inauguration last year, with the army in front of the majestic array, followed by tens of thousands of horse bandit captives, and every soldier with his head held high and his weapons proud.

Didn't "Daily Chronicle" say that the Kingdom Army won a complete victory, this is a great victory~

The people had thought about it, and as soon as the soldiers entered the city, they would give them the warmest cheers, and the men shook hands and bumped shoulders, and shouted for warmth; The children were full of longing and determined to be honored in the army when they grew up; There will also be young girls and triumphant warriors who will fall in love with each other, and they will decide for life at a glance.

It was supposed to be a high-spirited and incomparably romantic scene.

But the picture in front of me was bloody, impacting the fantasies of the people, and the cheers were like stuck in their throats, and they couldn't shout out.

The Battle of Bloody Sand was won, there is no doubt about it.

But it's not as glorious as it is on the "Daily Chronicle".

In the crowd, a young woman squeezed out, not a native of Twilight, but had arrived from out of town to welcome her husband home.

"Jason, Jason—" The woman asked softly as she trotted over to a senior officer with a Commander of Thousands logo on her shoulder, "Excuse me, is this the Deer Legion?" I've heard that the Deer Legion will be moving into Twilight today, have you seen Jason? ”

"Jason—" The Commander's tired eyes were bloodshot, his pupils began to focus, and he asked in a deep voice, "You mean Jason Cicero?" ”

The woman was relieved and said, "Yes, you know him?" Where is he? Is it in the back of the line? ”

The commander's eyes were struggling and gray, and he said to his subordinates, "I've found Jason's family, leave it to her." ”

A soldier lifted the curtain, and the woman was just about to greet her husband, but her smile froze, and she did not see the familiar figure.

The soldier took a small bag from the car, bent his waist almost respectfully at 90 degrees, and presented it to the woman with both hands.

The woman took it in a daze, opened it with trembling hands, and saw that it contained a burnt ring.

No matter how twisted and deformed it was, she could recognize it at a glance, because it was a token of love given to her husband when he was in love.

The commander's eyes were full of tears, and his voice was hoarse like a broken copper bell: "In the decisive battle of the main force of Red Lotus on the 7th, the horse bandits raided our camp in the middle of the night, and they filled the carriage with the "desert fire", ignited the horse and attacked our army's front. ”

"In order to protect his comrades, Jason Cicero, the centurion of the Deer Legion, dragged a burning wagon out of the barracks with both hands, and finally the desert fire that was contained inside exploded, engulfing him in flames... We cleaned up the battlefield after the war and only found this ring in a pile of coke..."

The surrounding people couldn't help but feel numb after hearing this, the power of the desert fire is needless to say, this Jason in order to protect his comrades, actually dragged the burning carriage away with both hands, the scorching heat of the palm touching the flames, the pain of flesh and blood peeling, everyone didn't even dare to think about it.

The commander was already in tears, and he beat the young widow in the chest, almost shouting: "At least 1,000 people have survived because of his bravery, and your husband is a hero!" ”

The woman had long since heard these words, and when she saw the ring, she had already sat down on the ground in despair, and the whole person was crying, and the wind dried the tears on her face, and new tears flowed, and her world was torn in half from this moment on, and the lost half was buried forever in the wind and sand of the desert, and could never be recovered.

Amid the woman's cry, more and more people came out to confess their relatives, and the urgent calls came one after another.

"Dad... Father... Yes! Mom! Daddy is here! Father!!! ”

"Charles, where are you, Charles? ... Has any of you seen my son Charles? ... How could I not find him..."

"The gods are above... It's great that you're okay... Go home... Mommy is taking you home..."

"No!! I don't believe it!!! Give me back the child!! ”

...

Gradually, some people hugged the surviving soldiers, their faces full of happiness for the rest of their lives, and they wept with joy.

Some people hugged the physically disabled soldier with a sad look and tears streaming down their eyes, but at least they were reunited, and there was still a way to go for the rest of their lives.

However...

More people are like the weeping woman, who found their husbands, fathers, sons in the corpse trucks or relics...

The child hugged his dead father, the old man hugged his son's body, and the widows fell to their knees and wept...

Behind the great victory, there are the blood-stained stumps of the wounded, the mutilated corpses of the dead, the despair of parents who have lost their children in old age, the longing that widows can no longer convey, and the eyes of those young children who yearn for their father's homecoming...

The only lesson that humanity has learned from history is that it has learned nothing from history.

The war will not end there, but will be repeated again and again in the future, and there will be groups of soldiers full of ideals and eager for victory rushing to the battlefield.

But everyone who has participated in the war will remember one sentence with their own scars - there is nothing good in the war, except its end.